Garment-supporter.



PATENTED SEPT. a, 1903.

B. P. ORBWILER.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

APPLIOATIQN FILED MAB. 7. 1902 N0 MODEL. Y

Paeniied September 8, 19433.

CAGO, lllLlllUS, ASSGNR'UF @LEV TLAND? CH.

SPECIFIGATIQE forwing per@ of Leners Patent Application filari March 7;

wiz/m m//ff/ (2f/mcafee: Y mmm 'that Summer? FRA OREii'iL-Er., a citizenof the 'United State siding Chicago, iu the cou' tV State oi' illinois,lieve iiiveete uy neri' mui use ful Garment-Supporter, er" Wiieir illefollow specification, This invention relates to garment-supperbers, undis clireeierl more' particularly te the iiuprovemeii er" the clasp bymeans Wliioli the supporer is attached te e Stocking or 'ailier garment.

The el Se moet Commonly euioloyer oiiliofef supp@ ei cou l 'i es u loopiouiber uml s bui-.ieu member renf'neil zit one euri of i sus peu. urupe. Elie loop member is ei' elem` gutem reifer, rml one eiid rheree'fnarrowed or eoristrieierl to receive ille sliwlr. ol' the buitou, overthe lierui of which re garmeut placed, The protection of the fz'ibriefremdejury has bee i insured oy 'furieus experi mis, the most Successfulof which eoruprelieiids tire use of a rubber or other elafs'oie button,the fielding uri-ture of which preieuie the fabric from being eu'o bythe @ges of ille loop mems rubber or L eeeiues e proie rien of for 1eeiieeriief..

My invention has for its obj/sei:- i'e produ ie a ola-sp eYiriiiuuiintiie ela/ratio but-tori yiid curing the necessary elasticityof ille engaging parte, Ly equipping the lee" member with Spring er gripQerre` u :generi lly ie form of ein lre l ltier re e' y portion ol' "irAnother o` bine 'tl e loep be roi'ziiueil u1 prepe thereby iu such morethose embodiment' have seleeie le Seid. rlriwin lfigure il is :i frontel evation of mieli of garmenesupportor ae iS neeessf'u Y illugorute theeeustruetion of the me the ms mier iu Wliieli it is attac-lied to :i gnient.. 2 is a View similar-to FiU. L sliewm the Grup or keeper rit thelower end of `bhe loop broken away to ill usi/rate hidden paris. 3 is imelevation of the reverse side of the subject-mattei.' of Fig. 2 with thebutton member detached. 4 is a, longi- 'l'v-id" .l View of iiliesubject-matter ie a iront elevation of zu1- p er loep member ihereor.liuzil section of Elie Subject-- Fig. 7 e front elevation rui of loepmember. Fig'. S orion thereof. Fig. 9 is e Ve View. of *die buttemplritewith the button ilotaeliecl und showing the l r efi'set ipe threadedthrough the butheir-pl( und ll is View similar to Fig. e toetliecl eerSprung back me pluie to cause the retenl0, but shew" into ie by theteeth. rais olf refereuee'ure eiiiployecl mi" ate oerrespouding partethroughout severa-l views.

i ipjjierter ooiiiprises, as ueual, L suspemli :j e il, el; the .lowerend of which is re hier?. :r geriiieut clasp eouiprisiug a loop 2 :rml ubutton member lu 'blurb ii 'euiiou illueiruiied in Figs. l,

. which .shrill 1li-@Ku describe, the feiiuilped (i1-otherwise formed al:imi is; previled uit its upper i :a sier li le facilitate the al1- einfie, 'The lower or narrow roep provided wibli L second slet 'li v.iieli exbeiirl the eurls mul of Y Y ile ieriuerl Lire rear member orreif. 7 'f el rhe imp. 'llie iueiulier 7 has Torun, of r. lmp divided:it ily lower ly formed from e single i el" e rngqyirw bezit tozipproxiuizi-Le Llle o elle loop proper uid Secured ab its ml end io theupper oud The of the' loop by any suitable means. The means iorconnecting' the members L and 7-that is to say, the loop proper and thespring-loel-will in practice be a portion ot' theI tape l, which asshown in the drawings (particularly in liig. 4) is passed through theslot 3, around the upper'transverse end oi the member 7, and sewed vorotherwise secured to connect the members ot' the loop and to lurnish aloose end 8 l`or' the attaelnnentof the button member. rlhe rearyrsprlmir-nire member 7 while approximating the form ei the loep 2 hasits opposite side portions extended within the inner edges ofthe loepaml bent, as indicated atfl,to formaconstricted throat l0, (seeF`r-.

below which the sides ot' the member 7 diverge, so that after the shankoi;l the button has been forced past 'the throat l0 the sides of thespring-lock may assume their normal positions and bear upon the l'algricwith inst sul'ticient pressure to seeure a tirm grip without endangeringthe integrity Of the t'abre. lhe rigidloop il and the spring member 7lie close against eaeh other, as shown in liig. l. lheretore in Order toprovide t'or their intel'- iitting engagement'. at the lower end ot theclasp, to insure the proper guidingI ol.' the yielding' sides ol.' themember 7, and to limit the expansion thereof it is necessary that aportion oi one ot said members be bentout of the plane ol.' the bodythereol". in the form illustrated inthe .first four lignressuehinterlitting engagement is securedl by bending the opposite sides oi thespring member and passing them tlnfoug'h the slot A't in the member!I atthe front side et' which the extr nnities oi' the springloch are bentinto parallel relation with the member and terminate ljust V short ofthe lower extremity thereof.l li' desired, these spring ends 5 and timay be bent back to t'orm terminal eyes, as best shown in Fig. 2, or, asshown in Fig. 5, these eyes may be omitted. .t'o provide a neat linishfor the clasp and also to obscure and protect thev lowerends of thespring member 7, the loop i5 may be provided at its lower end with a capor keeper l l, prel'erablv l'ormed by bending over a pair ol` lugI landIii, which instamping tho me l a permit ted to extend laterally inopposite directions trom the lower end thereel. in practice thefabric-as, for instance, the upper edge ot' a stocking-is placed overthe button, and the head of thelatter is passed through the upper orwide end ot the loop from the rear. 'lhe button is then drawn down, andthe shank thereoll is presented to the eonstrietcd throat ot' thespring-lock, the sides ol' which will be sprung apart to permit thebutton to be drawn down to lthe lower narrow or button-reeeiving end olfthe loop. As the sidi-s et' the spring-lock are bent out below thethroat lt) said sides will springbarli substantially to their normalpositions alter the button has reached the lower end olthe loop, theconstrieted throat will be re-t'ormed above the shanli'r-ot' the button,and the displacement or f isi mr'agement oi' said button instead ot'the. spring-lock to accommodate the inter-fitting engagement of theseparts. The loop 2 is stamped from sheet metal, in the tirst term, andis` slotted at its haver end in the same manner. Instead, however, ofthe lower end ofthe spring member being offset l'rom the body portionthereoli vfor reception within the slot the lower end otthe men'iber .3is ott'set from the plane of the member, as indicated at 14 in Fig. t),and the terminal eyes o the spring member are omitted. This latter t'orm(illustrated in Figs. 5 and e) embodies all of the leadingcharacteristics of the first t'orm ol. the invention, but is devisedwith special reference to the production oi an inexpensive elasp for usein hose-supporters ol' an interior grade.

Still another form of the invention is illuss trated in lfigs. 7 and S,wherein the loop 2 is formed from wire instead of being stamped t'romsheet metal, and instead ot the lower ends ot tlnI spring-lock beingpassed through a'slot in the loop thc end ol' said loop is receivedwithin a pair of terminal eyes 5 and (3, formed by bending theextremiticsol' the spring-wire 4from the plane of the body portionthereof, as shown in Fig. 8. The sides ol.' the looplimit the expansionof the springloek in this last-desf :ribed t'orm just as the ends of theslot `t limit such expansion in the preceding t'orms ot the invention;but it will be observed that in all forms an interlitting engagementsecured between the loop and the lower ends of the spring-lock member bybending the end ot one of said members out oi.' the pla'ne ot' its bodyportion to facilitate such engagement.

Vit will be noted that the invention compreA bonds a clasp -loop membercomprising a rigid or substantially inelastic loop associated with adivided spring-loop substantially coextensive therewith longitudinallyand constituting a yielding' constriction of the rigid loep for thepurpose of providing aspring leek which while gripping the fabric firmlywill be sufficiently yielding and. devoid of sharp surfaces to reduce.to a minimum the liability of cutting the fabric, notwithstanding theelimination of the yielding button surface,

A bntten-supporting plate of peculiar construction (illustrated vinFigs, il, 11.0, and li of the lrawings)constitntes another of the novel.features ot' the invention. It is desirable to provide means wherebythebuttmbplate may ICO reame ro plate extend from said bar to the edge21 of the plate proper. When the plate is mannfactured, however, the endbar 19 and the teeth are struck down, so as to lie offset in a planeparallel with the plate proper, but rer Ymoved therefrom sui'iieientlyto permit the end of the tape 1 to be slipped through the A slot 18,thence under the body of the plate and nnderthe bar 19, thence aroundthe bar and under the body of the plate. As the teeth lie zo perfectlyflat and in a plane parallel with the plate the extremity 22 of the tape1 is passed through the slot 17 Without difiiculty. After the tape hasbeen inserted in the manner stated the bar 19 is forced back into theplane z5 of the plate, and the teeth are thereby forced simultaneouslythrough the tape to hold the latter securely against withdrawal. It willbe noted that the metal at the ends of the slot 17,

V connecting the'. nar 19 with the body of the '3o plate, is in the'form of narrow strips, which might tend` to release the tape from thebutton-plate.

From the foregoing it Will be observed that l have produced a simple andeffective clasp for garment -supportersg but while the deto scribedembodiments of the invention appear at this time to be preferable forcertain lines of trade l desire to reserve the right to effect suchchanges, modifications, and variations ot' the illustrated structure asmay be sug- 0'ested b experience and ieriment and em- 2: a

braced within the scope of the protection prayed.

Yi'vhat .l claim is- 1. A loop member for garment-clasps, com- 5oprising a rigid loop, and a spring-loop associated therewith, saidspring-loop having a wide upper end, a divided lower end and anintermediate constrieted throat, the extremities of the spring-loophaving sliding engagement with a transversel r-dis osed ortion oftherigid loop.

SZ. A loop member for garment-clasps, comprising a rigid loop,and aspring-loop retained at the upper end of the rigid loop and having 6oconstrieted throat and a divided lower end,

the extremities of the spring-loop having lateral sliding engagementwith the transverse end portion or bar oi' the rigid loop. v A loopmember for garment-clasps, com- 65 prising a rigid loop, and a dividedspringloop assdolated therewith and having a constrieted ilzroatintermediate of its ends, :the

terminals of the divided loop having interfittingengagement withlowcrend of ibo rigid loop.

4. Aloop member forgarment-clasps, comprising a rigid loop, and adivided springloop associated therewith and having a constricted throatintermediate of its ends, said spring-loop being retained at the upperend of the rigid loop and its terminals being disposed in interiittingrelation with tho lower end of said rigid loop.

5. A loop member for garment-clasps, comprising a rigid loop, andadivided springloop having its opposite ends secured to the oppositeends of the rigid loop and provided with a constricted throatintermediate of its ends.

(3. A loop member for garment-clasps, comprising a'rigid loop providedwith a slot, and a divided springloop formed with a constricted throatand associated with the rigid l loop, said spring-loop having itsterminals received within said slot.

7. 1^. loop member for garment-clasps, comprising a rigid `loop providedwith a transverse slot at its lower end, and a divided spring -loopsecured at its upper end to the upper end of the rigid loop and providedintei-mediate ot its ends with a constricted throat, the terminals ofthe spring -loop be.

ingl received within t e slot of the rigid loop.

8. Aloop member r garment-clasps,com prising a rigid loop having atransverse slot at its lower end, a spring-loop longitudinallycoextensive with the rigid loop and having a constricted throat, andalso having a divided lower end extended through the slot, means forconnecting the loops at their upper ends, and a keeper or guard carriedby the rigid loop and serving to cover and protect the terminals of thespring-loop.

9. ln a garment-supporter, the combination with a suspending-tape, and abutton member secured thereto, of a loop member comprising a rigid loopand a spring-loop secured in proper relative positions by the tape, saidloop member beingprovided intermediate of its ends with a constrictedthroat, and having a divided lower end in intel-.fitting engagement withthe lower end ol the rigid loop.

10. In a garment -supporter, the combination with a susliiending-tape,and a button member secured thereto, ol' a loop member comprising arigid loop having a transverse' slot at its lower end and a guard orkeeper extending over the slot, and a spring-loop-se- Acured to theupper end of the rigid loop by the suspending-tape, said spring-loophaving a constricted throat intermediate of its ends and a divided lowerend passed through the slot of the rigid loop and protected by the guardor keeper.

11. A loop member for garment-clasps,com-

ciated therewith, said spring loop being divided at one end, provided.with a constrcted throat intermediate of its ends and widened IOO IIO

' end.

by the shank of a button when located between the divided end of theloop and the constrieted throat will be gripped by the springloop.V A iIn testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy. signatureiin l the presence of two witnesses..v

BENJAMIN FRANKIN ORPHYILER.-v

Witnesses: G. H. REINBERGER, SADIE BARR.

at' e point between the throat and the divided 12. Aloop member lf orgarmentblesps, com prising zt rigid loop, and a spiing -loop assoeiatedtherewith, said spring-loop being divided at its lower end,provided-with a oonstricted throetlintermediate vof its ends and widenedet a point between the throat and the divided end, the extremities ofthe springloopat opposite 'sides of the division being normally inclosely-adjacent relation, where-

